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+2009/05/05:
+
+Either give buffers direct access to the application object, or make the
+application object global. Otherwise, you can't directly configure a buffer via
+the application.config dictionary.
+
 2009/04/09:
 
 Fix the kludge that is completer initialization. Make application a global? Try